mofussil (mofusil)

[Hind. mufa al, the country as distinguished from the town, lit. separate, Mohammedan ity of playing-cards. - Mogul engine. See engine.The Great Mogul. (a) The common designation among Europe ans of the sovereign of the so-called Mogul empire, or empire of Delhi, at one time including most of Hindu stan, established by Baber about 1526, and brought under British control in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the last nominal emperor being deposed in 1857. Also called simply the Mogul. King, poet, priest, the Mogul was to the good Mahommedan what a descendant of the House of Je e would be to a nation of Jews. W. H. Ru ell , Diary in India, II. 62. Hence-(b) Any great personage. II. a. Of or relating to the Moguls, or the Mongol empire in India: as, the Mogul language; the Mogul dynasty. - Mogul architecture, the style of Mohammedan architecture evolved and carried out by the Mogul emperors in India, from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. The period was one of lavish expenditure in building, and innumerable mosques, royal tombs, and palaces testify to its artistic originality, to its excellent use of both arched and columnar construction, IMG:content-0822.png:[graphic][merged small][merged small] and of the dome, characteristically of bulbous form, and to the delicacy and good taste of its decorators in carving and in inlaying with precious stones. The arches are usually pointed, and as a rule resemble in outline the so-called Tudor arch. Minarets and especially small pavilions covered with domical roofs, either surrounding a large dome or placed in great numbers at the angles or along the parapets of the copings of palaces, are other characteristic features.